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On Wednesday, February 8, two new activities will take place, as part of the commemoration of the Year of the Enlightenment in Cartagena in 2017, as one of the times of splendor that the city has experienced throughout its three thousand years of history.
At 7:30 pm, the mayor, José López, will present the new location of the monument erected in 1990 to Carlos III, as architect of the modernization and fortification of the city and brother of Californian honor.
The King Illustrated will be next to one of his most significant works, the Wall, at the foot of the main stairs of General Services and next to the plaque that commemorates the fortification works.
The bust owned by the California brotherhood will return to this environment, after leaving its original site, at the foot of the Military Government, as a result of the rehabilitation of the wall in the early 2000s and was placed in 2008 in A landscaped space on Carlos III Street.
Within the Year of the Enlightenment, Carlos III wanted to return to the Wall of the Sea but this time presiding over its central and most emblematic area.
In the act of Wednesday will intervene the mayor of Aforca, Juan Lorenzo Gómez-Vizcaíno that will expose the great work that realized the monarch in the fortification of the city and its port;
The elder Californian brother, Juan Carlos de la Cerra, whose cofradía, of which Carlos III was brother of honor, erected this monument;
And the mayor himself, Jose Lopez, who also accompanied by a squadron of Californian grenadiers will deposit a crown at the foot of the monument.
NAVAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN ILLUSTRATION
The activities of that same afternoon will continue in the Consistorial Palace, where on the ground floor, the mayor, José López, and the councilman of the Culture and Heritage area, Ricardo Segado, will inaugurate the exhibition titled "Cartagena de España Ilustrada. In the Captaincy of the Maritime Department of the Mediterranean ".
It is a sample divided into two parts: a documentary in which drawings and engravings of Cartagena of the eighteenth century are collected, including original plans for the construction project of the Military Arsenal of the military engineer Sebastián Feringán and Mateo Vodopich.
Also included is an original size reproduction of the inlay of Langón, a beautiful stone that originally was in the cathedral of Cartagena and that corresponds to the tomb of the captain Maltese Langón and in which the different types of boats of the time appear.
The other part of the exhibition is a sample of the ships that were built during the XVIII century in the Arsenal of Cartagena, through 1:50 scale models made by the naval modeler José Antonio Sánchez Marroquí, on original plans.
These are frigates, galleys, urcas, bombardas and jabeques.
Most of them are municipal property and were commissioned by the City Council in the late 80's and early 90's. But perhaps the most prominent piece is the reproduction of the ship San Ildefonso, ceded by the Bank of Sabadell.
All of them will be illustrated with plaques of the Marquis de la Victoria
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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